Joseph Smith

Mr. Smith is a partner in the Denver office of Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP. He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale College, cum laude and with Distinction in the Philosophy Major. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago, where he was a Bradley Fellow in Law and Government, president of the Federalist Society, and chairman of the Edmund Burke Society. Mr. Smith served as Colorado's Deputy Attorney General for Natural Resources in 1997-98, and was a Republican candidate for Colorado Attorney General in 1998. In 2000, he was among the Bartlit Beck lawyers who represented George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in connection with the Bush v. Gore trial in Florida. Mr. Smith is an alumnus of both the American Council on Germany’s Young Leader Conference, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Civilian Orientation Conference. Mr. Smith sits on the Board of Trustees of the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank located in Golden, Colorado. He previously co-chaired the Professional Liability Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation.

(Image not available)